A laptop is now finding its place beside a notebook and a pen in school backpacks in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer computers with Internet access in all public elementary school students.
In the small village Poquer, approximately 30 km north of Montevideo, near 20 students in the Odyssey song, drawing and even rewriting the epic poem by Homer, with assistance from his green apple laptops.
Judging by the smiles, the students are loving this way than to participate in the class of literature.
"Here I made the image of Odysseus comes to the island of Calypso!" cried nine-year-old Facundo, pointing at the screen of your computer.
A total of 380,000 computers have been distributed free to students and public teachers in this South American country of 3.34 million interlayered between Argentina and Brazil.
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